Angela Dalle Vacche
Biographic Data
| ID | 117740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angela Dalle Vacche |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angela Dalle |
| FAMILY NAME | Vacche |
| SIGNATURE | VACCHE A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
André Bazin's Film Theory
Always keen on the spectators’ freedom of interpretation, André Bazin’s film theory not only asks the famous question “What is cinema?,” but it also explores what is a human. By underlining the importance of personalist ethics, Angela Dalle Vacche is the first film specialist to identify Bazin’s “anti-anthropocentric” ambition of the cinema in favor of a more compassionate society. Influenced by the personalist philosophy of his mentor, Emmanuel …
The Art Documentary in the Postwar Period
In the wake of the Holocaust and Hiroshima, the exploration of human creativity became central to reestablish the humanity of humankind. By closely following the art documentary, French film critic André Bazin focused on this genre in relation to painting, because the latter was the most elitist of all media. In the case of Alain Resnais’s Van Gogh (1948), Bazin used the encounter of cinema and painting as an example of symbiosis between the obje…
Cinéma et musée
Les contributions qui suivent partaient d’un constat apparemment indiscutable et admis d’avance, soit qu’on l’admette pour s’en réjouir, soit qu’on l’estime décadent : toutes les formes possibles de cinéma, archaïques ou actuelles, commerciales ou expérimentales, dessinées ou enregistrées, sont aujourd’hui présentes au musée. Or, cela ne va pas de soi. Cette évidence d’époque n’est peut-être ni évidente ni propre à notre temps. Rapprocher musée e…
The Body in the Mirror
Decadent Genealogies
Barbara Spackman here examines the ways in which decadent writers adopted the language of physiological illness and alteration as a figure for psychic otherness. By means of an ideological and rhetorical analysis of scientific as well as literary texts, she shows how the rhetoric of sickness provided the male decadent writer with an alibi for the occupation and appropriation of the female body
Postmodernism and Its Discontents, Theories and Practices
No prominent works on this page.
Postmodernism and Its Discontents, Theories and Practices
Decadent Genealogies
Barbara Spackman here examines the ways in which decadent writers adopted the language of physiological illness and alteration as a figure for psychic otherness. By means of an ideological and rhetorical analysis of scientific as well as literary texts, she shows how the rhetoric of sickness provided the male decadent writer with an alibi for the occupation and appropriation of the female body
The Body in the Mirror
Cinéma et musée
Les contributions qui suivent partaient d’un constat apparemment indiscutable et admis d’avance, soit qu’on l’admette pour s’en réjouir, soit qu’on l’estime décadent : toutes les formes possibles de cinéma, archaïques ou actuelles, commerciales ou expérimentales, dessinées ou enregistrées, sont aujourd’hui présentes au musée. Or, cela ne va pas de soi. Cette évidence d’époque n’est peut-être ni évidente ni propre à notre temps. Rapprocher musée e…
The Art Documentary in the Postwar Period
In the wake of the Holocaust and Hiroshima, the exploration of human creativity became central to reestablish the humanity of humankind. By closely following the art documentary, French film critic André Bazin focused on this genre in relation to painting, because the latter was the most elitist of all media. In the case of Alain Resnais’s Van Gogh (1948), Bazin used the encounter of cinema and painting as an example of symbiosis between the obje…
André Bazin's Film Theory
Always keen on the spectators’ freedom of interpretation, André Bazin’s film theory not only asks the famous question “What is cinema?,” but it also explores what is a human. By underlining the importance of personalist ethics, Angela Dalle Vacche is the first film specialist to identify Bazin’s “anti-anthropocentric” ambition of the cinema in favor of a more compassionate society. Influenced by the personalist philosophy of his mentor, Emmanuel …
Art (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Movie theater (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)